Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmed, Will Become First Black Woman on the Supreme Court

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is making history.

The 51-year-old federal judge was confirmed Thursday (April 7) as the next U.S. Supreme Court justice following weeks of Senate hearings.

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The 53-47 confirmation vote in the Senate was mostly split among party lines, with three Republicans breaking from the party to confirm.

As a result, she will be the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.

Judge Jackson grew up in Miami, and her mother was a school administrator and her father was a lawyer for the Miami-Dade school board. She graduated from Harvard University and Harvard Law School. She was also a Supreme Court law clerk for Justice Breyer, who once described her as “great, brilliant, decent, with a mix of common sense and thoughtfulness.”

She met her husband Patrick at Harvard. He is a surgeon at a Washington hospital, and they have two daughters.

She was previously appointed as a federal judge for the Washington, D.C. circuit in 2012 by President Barack Obama. And last year, President Joe Biden appointed her to the court of appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

A major figure in the White House is reportedly making a move to television.